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Architecture in 2012: review of the year in buildings

Divisive: London’s Shard rises more than 50m above the next tallest building in the European Union (Photo: Julian Simmonds)

In a year that saw severe funding cuts to schools, libraries and arts buildings and the delivery of new housing rattling along at its lowest level since records began in the Twenties, there weren’t too many rays of light for British architecture. And yet one, at least, shone brightly.
— telegraph.co.uk